The revelation came like a blade through the heart of everything they thought they understood about existence.
Reed felt his Wounded Sage awareness recoil from the truth that Zara's dual-state consciousness had uncovered, a cosmic horror so profound that it challenged every assumption about the nature of reality itself. The war chamber's dimensional barriers trembled under the weight of knowledge that should never have been accessible to conscious beings.
"It's not an enemy," Zara whispered, her form flickering between dimensions as her transcendent abilities struggled to process information that existed beyond the categories of consciousness and void. "The Primordial Hunger... it's not trying to destroy us. It's trying to save us."
The words hung in the air like a toxin that corrupted everything it touched. Reed watched as the assembled figures of the Reluctant Alliance processed implications that threatened to shatter their entire understanding of cosmic order.
